Performing maintenance tasks on composed systems during workload execution

An apparatus comprising a computing device, a computer processor, and a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:

• monitoring a performance of a compute element during the execution of a workload, wherein the compute element is mapped to a composed system executing the workload, and wherein the compute element and the composed system are within a pod of composable compute elements;
• determining, based on the performance of the compute element, that the compute element has a pending maintenance task;
• unmapping, from the composed system during the execution of the workload, the compute element with the pending maintenance task;
• performing the maintenance task on the unmapped compute element during the execution of the workload by the composed system;
• and
• remapping the compute element to the composed system during the execution of the workload.

A computer program product including a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:

• monitoring a performance of a compute element during the execution of a workload, wherein the compute element is mapped to a composed system executing the workload, and wherein the compute element and the composed system are within a pod of composable compute elements;
• determining, based on the performance of the compute element, that the compute element has a pending maintenance task;
• unmapping, from the composed system during the execution of the workload, the compute element with the pending maintenance task;
• performing the maintenance task on the unmapped compute element during the execution of the workload by the composed system;
• and
• remapping the compute element to the composed system during the execution of the workload.